Connecticut Wildlife Conservation Opportunity Areas for 2025

7 conservation opportunity areas (COAs) were identified for Connecticut's 2025 State Wildlife Action Plan. The State of Connecticut created this dataset by integrating ecological and social data using Zonation spatial prioritization software. It was last updated in April 2026.

Use Cases

• Identify areas for habitat 'protect' actions based on spatial priority scores from Zonation.
• Plan landscape 'connect' initiatives using the geospatial boundaries of the COAs.
• Target 'restore' or 'manage' interventions using the ecological data layers specific to each COA.
• Coordinate 'partner' and 'inform' efforts by analyzing the integrated social data within priority polygons.
• Guide 'research and monitor' activities by overlaying COA boundaries with species or habitat datasets.

Strengths

• Dataset defines 7 distinct conservation action categories.
• Integrates multiple ecological and social data layers for prioritization.
• Published under a permissive CC0-1.0 license for unrestricted use.

Limitations

• Specific row counts, column names, and sample sizes for the underlying data are unknown.
• The analysis is geographically limited to the state of Connecticut.
• The recency of the source ecological and social data inputs is not specified.

Provenance

Source

State of Connecticut.

Collection Method

Ecological and social data combined in Zonation spatial prioritization software.

Time Range

2025 (plan year).

Freshness

Last updated in April 2026.

Geography

Connecticut, USA.